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Andy and Anthony talk about hate cards, and how they fit into Cube design in particular. Of course, they start by trying to define the term. They talk through the pros and cons of them and how different types may play a role in Cubes. They go through a number of their own cubes, analyzing them from this perspective.
Discussed in this episode:
Take 5
Sacred Geometry
100 Ornithopters
Bun Magic Cube
Neoclassical Cube
Turbo Cube
Regular Cube
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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Main Topic: Hate Cards
9:15 - Examples of Hate Cards
13:05 - Hate Cards We Cube
16:09 - Talking About Constructed
17:14 - Aura Shards
22:09 - Bun Magic Hate Cards
23:53 - Teferi, Time Raveler
28:38 - Changing the Math vs Hate
31:11 - Take Five
34:11 - Hate Combos
36:30 - Neoclassical Cube
38:48 - White in Neoclassical
42:00 - Groundseal
44:37 - Humility
48:47 - Turbo Cube
55:39 - Context Shift Hate
59:57 - Mailbag
1:02:15 - Garfield

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Andy and Anthony scour the cutting room floor for unfinished gems. They offer up some of their half-baked, unfinished cube ideas for you to steal. Andy shares his ideas for an aesthetic sun-bleached cube, a cube where your deck is your life total, and an environment built around wishes. Anthony digs up an all alternate win conditions cube and a battle box where the entire game happens in one stack.
Discussed in this episode:
Anthony’s Alternate Win Condition Cube
Anthony’s Single Stack Battle Box
Creatureless Cube
Degenerate Microcube
Loam Cube
Companion Cube
Arcane Lessons
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Main Topic: Steal Our Ideas
1:57 - Sunbleached Cube
6:59 - Alternate Win Cons Cube
13:06 - No Life Total Cube
24:33 - Where Do Ideas Come From
27:33 - Omniscience Battlebox
37:24 - Three Wishes Cube
49:02 - Custom Ante Cards

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Andy and Anthony are joined by Cube Person of the Year 2024, Ollie, to talk about whether it’s irresponsible to present a cube for drafting without any playtesting. What is the difference between ‘playing’ and ‘playtesting’? Can you design a cube iteratively without playtesting? Just how bad can a cube really be?
Discussed in this episode:
Upkeep NY/C4AC
Bodlean Cube
Creatureless Cube
Episode 302 — Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular Cube
The Ball Pit
Episode 206 — The Joy of Gaming with Richard Garfield
100 Ornithopters
Marina Abramovic - The Artist is Present (2010)
Boston Cube Party
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
3:41 - Secret Project: Obscura
9:13 - Playtesting
16:46 - The Case Against Playtesting
21:03 - Non-Playtest Data
23:09 - The Process
29:45 - Playing Vs Playtesting
35:17 - Cube First Impressions
43:33 - Expectations
47:28 - Designing for an Experience
52:10 - Marina Abramovic and Artistic Intent
58:26 - Logistics

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Andy and Anthony are joined by the de facto Cube judge — Bones! The three recap The Salt Box, a small Cube event in Baltimore. At this event, Andy debuted Take Five and Judge Bones Arcane Lessons. They share what they learned from players drafting their cubes for the very first time and their own experience as cube designers drafting cubes for the first time in a public event.
Discussed in this episode:
Salt Box
Take 5
Take 5 Youtube Videos
Arcane Lessons
Bones on Cube Cobra
Changeling Cube
Sacred Geometry
Regular Cubehttps://cubecobra.com/cube/about/regular?view=primer
Kulashov Cube
The Wetlands
The Red Terror
Magic History with Bones and Deinonychus
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:00 - Special Guest Judge Bones
5:11 - Arcane Lessons
11:31 - Debuting Arcane Lessons
15:38 - Lesson/Learn
17:19 - Arcane
19:35 - Iteration
21:12 - Lessons Learned
29:09 - Take Five Debut
42:45 - Designing Cubes for Events
47:35 - Take Five Feedback
51:48 - Anthony’s Salt Box Highlights
60:08 - Fun Judge Calls with Judge Bones

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Andy and Anthony are joined by returning guest Zach Barash. They talk about about different lenses Cube designers can use to approach designing a new cube. They finish on a pack 1, pick 1 from Andy’s new cube Take Five.
Previous episodes with Zach:
001 The Principles of Game Design
002 On Terminology, Communication, and Community
003 Reflections on Cube Drafts Past
004 Building Skill vs. Building Community and Learning from Your Mistakes
005 Playtesting and Cube Feedback
Discussed in this episode:
Upkeep NY
Episode 197: Cube Design Iron Chef: Goblin Charbelcher
Episode 182: Emergent Cube Design by Example
Cubes referenced:
Bun Magic Cube
Cascade Cube
Turbo Cube
Reading Rainbow
Sacred Geometry
The Ball Pit
Companion Cube
Perilous Seas
Dichotomy Cube
UMA+ Cube
Take Five
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Guest: Zach Barash
4:59 - Lenses for Approaching Cube Design
14:12 - Making a “Good Cube”
15:05 - Duplication
19:28 - Balance
24:13 - Homage
25:18 - Powermaxing Diversion
33:39 - Novelty
37:14 - Balancing Goals vs Taste
42:01 - Icebergs
46:11 - Restrictions
51:33 - Head vs Heart
53:43 - Summary
58:01 - Crack-a-Pack of Take Five